Wow. I would say that this was the single worst purchasing experience I have ever had, except that it was actually broken down into three awful experiences.
I will soften my review by starting out that the actual process of shopping was pleasant. The salesman Mike, up to that point was knowledgeable about the wares, and answered all of our questions as best he could. We picked out a 7 piece dining room set, 3 piece leather living room set, and an ala carte 4 piece bedroom set. All told about $8500. So far, so good.
Then the unholy clusterfuck started. First Mike added the protection plan, without asking, then added it again after we said no, blaming the computer. Eventually that's cleared up, and he begin the laborious process of actually ringing us up, which took a good half hour. Constantly pestered us about opening a charge account, after we repeatedly explained we were paying cash, and watching several other customers get turned down by their system anyway.
Some time later, Mike started mumbling "oh no, no" and etc, got a horrified look on his face, and ran into the back office, without explaining anything. came out, scurried back, came back. Eventually, after we were already aggrivated, Mike explained that while attempting to split our purchase into two shipments, to accommodate some pieces being on back order, he somehow managed to completely cancel out PART of the order.
It of course was not even the same split , which would have made more sense, but was half the living and dinning room sets. No way for him to restore it, a new sale had to be done, and re-authorised with our bank account. We were already at our spending limit for the day, and the original full hold was in place, despite some of the order being canceled. The Manager, whose name escaped me, very brusquely tried to convince us that our bank would let it go through, if we let them try. Our bank very firmly told us that was a bad idea.
So we set it up to re-authorise the remaining purchase for the next day, over the phone as we had to be out of town the next few days, and went about the rest of our day, pretty pissed off. The manager eventually gave us 20% off the second purchase, but only after several hours of drama and incompetence. But we thought the worst was over.
Shit was i wrong.
Fast forward a few weeks for the delivery time. Its then that we discover that we do not have a single complete, correct sales check, bill of sale, or receipt. We didn't lose them, we simply didn't have any, and were never given any due to a variety of bad reasons. And they're kind of important because I needed the sales check # to track the orders.
So delivery day is upon me, which is great because I had given away my old living room, dining room, and bedroom furniture to charity after a recent move, I have nothing to sit on, my mattress is on the floor, and my clothes in dufflebags.
I end up calling customer serivce, because I was having alot of trouble finding my orders online, what with the incomplete data and all. Turns out THEY SPELLED MY NAME WRONG! Left off 3 kind of important letters! And the had the WRONG ADDRESS!!! Thankfully the very polite and helpful CS rep got through to the delivery guys, and updated them. Then she just happened to look up my other recent orders, to help me out.
Turns out, that my couch, chair and ottoman order had been canceled, weeks ago, for no good damn reason, by someone named Juan. And noone bothered to tell me about it, even though the only correct information on file was my phone #! Just dandy, whatever, I'll reorder it.
"But wait, I wondered, why was i still charged several grand?" "oh" says the nice CS lady, "it looks like you're scheduled to receive TWO whole 7 peice dining room sets today. Er, did you order two?"
No. No, I did not. WTF.
So as the nice delivery guys show up, and after i decline one set, and my fiance mixes and matches chairs from them ( two of 12 were damaged), I call back Macy's Rt 46 furniture. I eventually started talking to one of the managers, Janina, after our salesman proved to be about as helpful and genuine as a Richard Nixon mask. My fiance and I tag-teamed calls with her, as all parties involved were getting very frustrated and flustered; Janina was literally speechless a few times.
No real apologies were made, no explanations were given; just excuses, and bad ones at that. No one at that store had a clue what the hell happened, or so they claimed. None of the people we talked to offered to make things better, which is commandment #1 of Customer service in my book. Instead, we were made to feel that our having attempted to make a significant purchase with them, was a pain in their ass. Kept making things worse.
I still have no receipts, despite assurances that they were mailed to me, and I disagree with what i was charged. The math aint right.
Bottom line, GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!!! Try raymour and Flannigan, where I eventually got my couch. Nice people there. read more